Photo: Diego M. Radzinschi/ALMHogan Lovells Lands Restructuring Partner in Hong Kong From DLA Piper
Jonathan Leitch is the third Hong Kong partner hire since Miguel Zaldivar took over as Asia Pacific and the Middle East regional head last year.
November 06, 2019 at 02:07 PM
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Hogan Lovells has hired restructuring partner Jonathan Leitch in Hong Kong from DLA Piper.
Leitch specialises in restructuring and insolvency, including debt restructuring and refinancing, as well as distressed mergers and acquisitions and cross-border restructuring, of companies in the retail, property, shipping and manufacturing sectors.
He practised at DLA Piper his entire legal career before leaving to join Hogan Lovells. Leitch joined DLA Piper in 1998 after law school and made partner in London in 2008, before relocating to Hong Kong in 2012. In 2003, he seconded for more than a year at Royal Bank of Scotland's global banking and markets division.
Finance partners Owen Chan and Louise Leung, corporate partners Sammy Li and Andrew McGinty, and disputes partner Chris Dobby in Hong Kong also handle restructuring matters at Hogan Lovells.
Leitch is the third partner hire in Hong Kong by Miguel Zaldivar, who has been overseeing Hogan Lovells' Asia-Pacific and Middle East operations as the firm's regional head, based in Hong Kong, since July last year. Zaldivar is among six partners running to take over from Steve Immelt as chief executive officer of the firm next year.
Since July 2018, Hogan Lovells has recruited transactions lawyers Stephanie Tang from Shearman & Sterling and Laurence Davidson from an in-house role at Chinese conglomerate HNA Group. It has also brought on disputes lawyer Antonia Croke from Ashurst, where she was a senior associate. Croke is currently based in London but will relocate to Hong Kong in the coming months.
Hogan Lovells also has seen several partner departures in Hong Kong this year: corporate lawyer Steven Tran joined Mayer Brown and former longtime partner and disputes specialist Allan Leung left at the beginning of 2019 and later joined Dentons. Former partner and Asia head of structured products and derivatives, Bronwen May, retired from the partnership in September after five years with the firm, and former corporate finance partner and Hogan Lovells lifer Timothy Fletcher left last month. The Hong Kong office also laid off six of its support staff in July to streamline its business services operations.
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